For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COST. When referring to the cost of any local public improvement, shall mean the same as “expense” and shall include the cost of services, plans, condemnation, spreading of rolls, notices, advertising, financing, construction and legal fees, and all other public costs incidental to the making of such improvements, the special assessments therefor and the financing thereof.
LOCAL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT. Any public improvement which is of such a nature as to benefit especially any real property or properties within a district in the vicinity of such improvement. It shall include, but not be limited to, the following improvements, including the land therefor: public buildings and offices, garbage collection, firehouses, destroying weeds, tree trimming, street lighting, streets, alleys, lanes, bridges, sewers, drains, water courses, water systems, or any other local public improvement or repair.
(Ord. 156, passed 5-19-2004)